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Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20

April showers bring May flow. CTS, but there are not many show. CTS.
 Prof. Wooten has a fiOurishing school at Harmony, near Dr. Wren's. He is a fine teacher, and is doing mnch good.
 Our venerable mail rider, snow or blow. rain or shine, mud or dust, hot or cold, totes the mail, if tote is a proper word.
 Messrs. Sid and William Briant. in Albany township, are splendid farmers, and have a plantation store that does a lively business
 The New Salem Sunday School, near Laneburg, is flOurishing m. der the superintendency of Mr. JnO. w. Jordan. They have or dered the music hook, Prayer and Praise, and Prof Nelson leads the singing.
 We heard good old lady re mark that April was scarce time of,the year for something to eat the bacon is gettin' strong. the veg etables hez not come in yit, and spring chickens aint ripe yit; it's q mighty hard time"
 Messrs. Barham X Cofield have erected new saw mill ten miles from RosstOn. on the road leading to Hope, and they are whizzins the saw through the old pines at z fearful rate, and run daily wagons to Hope with the lumber.
 Mir. J. P. Hendrix is a gentlema, of energy and enterprise. Ht runs farm and saw and grist mill between Lancburg and Ross ton, and has built a magnificen, new church 32 X 30 feet. Would that Nevada county had more like him.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20
EnlIMet EtchingS.

"Jeminy" how cold.
 Cotton planting about over. Bill went with his solid girl last Sunday. Hurrah for Providence. MT A E Johnson of Philadelphia, was down and spent Sunday with his girl.
 Capt. Ansley was down Wednes. day, looking after the interest of his Greenback Gospel,
 The young man in the buggy en- joyed himself splendidly driving some of the boys around Come again, Jim.
 The firm of StaintOn X McSwain all turned out to neIp Bob catch his yearling, but all failed, and the yealing still enjoys freedom.
 Great preparations are being made for the wedding down the road, judge, by the buggies that come from Hope. Maybe Pm wrong, but an, hard to fool.
 Bro. Gardner gave us a pleasant call Thursday-is looking af.er the interests of his paper. Bro. q. is a wide awake editor and the sub scription list of the PICAYUNE is proving it.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20
Harry Watkins.

Our people doubtless remember | hearing Harry Watkins, the real COW boy evangelist lecture at the 1 Methodist church here few months since. He is very proper ly highly esteemed all oyer Texas. The Gatesyille (Texas) Star; of last week, spoke of him as follows:
 The inimitable and only Harry Watkins is again at his home among us. after d tour in north Texas. He describes this tour as decided Iy successful-crowds docking to hear him-even if he did tumble off just as he straddled the top rail of redemption. TeXarkana whisky caused his down fall, but he is again squarely on his legs, and fighting the Prohibition battle just as strongly as before with an added spice 0. mallce against Texarkana. Here is what the Mckinney Mercury has to say of of him:
 Harry Watkins delivered lee ture at the Court House in this city on Monday night, to large and appreciative audience, taking for his theme, "Delerium Ire mens.' We will not attempt to follow the gentlemen in his lec- tka ..t st this week beng inadequate to do him anything like justice. More than this, he should have been heard to be appreciated. To say that the lecture was an exceeding ly fine one, would but feebly express it. During portion of his lecture the silence in the court room could be almost felt, so intense was it, and the dropping of pin could almost have been heard. At other times the audi ence was convulsed with laughter, and thus it alternated from the be ginning to the close. Mir. Watkins drew vivid and startling picture of the phamtoms and demons that haunted him while delirious from liquor. He has the faculty of sway ing men almost at will, and he uses it with most wonderful facility. No one who has the pleasure of hear ing him once, but longs to hear, again, again. But we leave the lecture and pass to another mat ter.
 The fact that Mir. Watkins has relapsed once or twice since his reformation, and gone back to the bowl, is harshly commented on in certain quarters. Thrice, John B. Cough, the most noted temperance lecturer of his time, fell by the way side and went bauk to the cups af- ter his reformation, but he con. quered his old enemy in the end. and lived for years and died so- Der man, respected by untold thousands of his adoped country. men.
 Luther Benson. another reform ed man of marked ability, has fnl len time or two. But Cough, Watkins and Benson fell with their faces to the foe, and arose to re. new the battle for liberty from the the thralldOm which had so long held them. Cough has gone to his rest, and beyond the reach of temptation, and that Watkins and Benson will conquer yet, we firmly believe.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20
Good Results i'm Every Case.

D. A. Bradford, wholesale pa per dealer of Chattanooga, Tenn, writes that he was seriously affiict- ed with a severe cold that settled on his lungs; had tried many rem edies without benefit. Being in duced to try Dr. Kings New Dis covery for Consumption, did so and was entirely cured by the use of a few bottles. Since which time he has used it in his family for all Coughs and Colds with best results. This is the experience of thousands whose lives have been saved by this Wonderful Discov' cry. Trial bottles free at Jno. NJ
 Milburn's. ,
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20
STATE OFFICERS:
COUNTY OFFICERS:
CHURCHES AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS:

M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH, PREscoTT STA rIoy.-R. NJ Traylor. Pastor, in charge, Preaching every Sabbath, morning and evening. Prayer meeting every "Wednesday evening. Sunday School every Sunday morning from 9 to 9:50 o'clock; Alex Vaughn, Superintendent.
 CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHuRcH.- G. w. Lagrone, Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath, morning and evening. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. sunday School every Sunday morning at 9;3o o'clock; W. A. Hatley, Superintendent.
 CHRISTIAN CHURcH.-W. J. Hudspcth, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday, morning and evening Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. Sunday School ev- cry Sunday morning at 9:80 o'clock. Dr. J. D. Jordan, Superintendent.
 BAPTIST CnuRcH.-W. T Box. Pastor. Preaching second and fourth Sundays Tn each month, morning and evening. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening. Sunday School every Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock, w. k. Atkinson, Supcrcntendent.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20
We overheard q conversation be.

We overheard conversation be. tween our neighbor woman (cOl.) and one of her little darlings, tl,ns: "Haii't l brought ye up to be obe. .junt to ye: mudder.r .les 'um.v J "Haln't l tell ye dat bad siety will ruin ye." '.Yus 'nm.r :'Well. den, if ye don't stay at home and mind yer business, and quit playin wid de white trash, fore God, nig- ger, I'll knock ye in de he he'd wid a brick.' Yes 'um." The moth. et edded De white trash is de cuss oh de country.H
 ADIoS.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20
Has Not Failed.

Mir. Wm. Paisley, Dobyville, Ark, writes: "YOur Hughes Ton ic, having been highly recommend- ed to me. l ordered, a short time since, one dozen bottles, soon sold every bottle and have yet to hear of a single instance of it's failing to effect a speedy cure of chills and fever.
 Prepared by R. A. Robinson X Go, Wholesale Druggist, Louis vile, Ky. Sold at retail by Drug, gists gen erally.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20
5000 Agents Wanted! Double Quick to sel JOE TOWARDS !9 lE REECHER

Infinitely the most valuable because coming so closely from the family circle and by n master hand engaged in "Labor of Love. ' Richly llustraled- steel portrait. &c. Will sell immensely. Millions want this stand ard life of the greatest preacher and orator of the age. Quick is inc word. Territory in great demand. Send for circulars and 5Oc for outfit to E. HOLLOWAY X co,
 St Louis. Mo.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20
SCHOOL NOTICE.

Mrs. A. A. Kirkland has moved her school to the Tom Allen public school building Will occupy rooms on tho first floor. She will give her careful, conscien- tious attention to the thorough training of the chiIdrell intrusted to her care, She solicits . libynl share of the public patrons age Ferns the same as betoru.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20
PRESCOTT MARKETS.

Revised and corrected weekly by Hatiey & Christopher.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20
Recommended by Gov. Ireland.

AUSTIN, TEXAS. Aug. $, 1885. To MR A. K. HAWKES.:
 Dear Sir-lt gi es me pleasure 10 say that l have been using your glasses for some time past with much satisfaction. For clearness. softness. and for all purposes in tended, they are not surpassed by any l have ever worn. l would recommend them to all who want superior glass.
 l am very respectfully yours,
 JOHN IRELAND.
 Gov. of Texas. For sale by Hugh Moncrief X Bro., Druggists and Opticians, Prescott.
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20
An End to Bone Scraping.

Edward Shepherd. of Harris burg, Ill. says: Having received so much benefit from Electric Bit ters, l feel 1t my duty to let snf- fering humanity know it. Have had a running sore on my leg for eight years: my doctors told me l would have to have the bone scraped or amputatcd. used. instead. three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Buck lens Arnica Salve, and my leg is sound and well.' Electric Bitters are sold at fifty cents bottle, and Bucklen's Arnica Salve at 25c per box by Jno NJ. Milburn j
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20

COTTON MARKET,
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Mir. w. l.. Webb no better,
 Straw hats and seersuckerS. Salvo Cigar at E. l.. Harwood's. Fires were comfortable Monday
Nevada County picayune., 1887-04-20
Here and There.

April showers bring May flow CTS, but there are not many show org
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-26
An Original Theory OF Earthquakes.

1t is said by biologists that the crust
of the earth bears about the same
proportion to the whole that the rind
Of IN orange bears to the substance
inclosed. On old charts andm APPS seve-
raj whirlpools are marked, but re-
Gently those places have been sailed
over without finding them. Within a
few months, however, two great whirl-
pools, called the Wells of Swinna,
have been discovered in the Pentland
Firth. which runs between the Orkney
Islands and the main land of Scot
land. These, it is said, will swallow
up any vessel which comes within
their draught. Since the extinction
of the volcanoes in the Island of Ice
land earthquakes have been unknown
in higher northern ATTITUDES. Some
of the Orkneys are in latitude sixty
degrees north. 1t is assumed that
waters received by the whirlpools have
generated steam among the internal
forces, and this steam has sought
vent through the thinnest part of the
crust. 1t is well known that the trop-
les are more frequently visited by
earthquakes than the temperate zones.
Suppose, then, that the surface of the
earth is thinner at the equator than
elsewhere, is there not danger that
the earth may be torn in two, and
that, as both poles are laden with ice,
the parts may capsize with the habit
able division undermost? In that case
the waters would rush into the fires,
and the whole affair 90 up in steam.
Everything that is possible is proba-
ble.-BoStOai Globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-26
White House Spells.

"There is another" said one of the
doorkeepers at the White House one
day this week. whats that?" asked
some one who was standing near by.
why, cigar fiend, was the reply.
"See that man going off there" and
he pointed to very respectable-look-
ing man walking away putting at a
half-smoked cigar. I'VE have regular
customers here--men who make it a
practice to come to the White House
once or twice day and pick up
stumps of cigars thrown on the porch
or walks leading to the House. Cabi-
net days are their chief days, and
when Congress is in session they live
high. They know that Cabinet officers
and Senators smoke good cigars and
often they have just lighted one before
reaching the House and throw it away.
You would be surprised to know the
men who come here daily to pick up
these cast-otf stumpS robins | believe
the actors call them. The White
House, YOU know, is the place which
all the prominent men of the country,
in town, visit. These men invariably
smoke good cigars, and it is II picnic
for the 'robin-huntcrS Watch the
porch some day and see for Yourself. !"
-Bditim0re San.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-26
The Boston tock-Exchange.

With the whole town as wild over
West End stock as the Dutchmen were
over tulip bulbs in the seventeenth CEN
fury, when single bulbs brought Sc, 900
apiece, when the transactions repre-
scented not merely actual transfers of
bulbs, but fictitious sales, long and
the Dutch equivalents for puts and
calls and that sort of thing, the listener
felt it his duty to lean for quarter
hour against the picket fence at the
stock-exchange and watch the trans
actions" in West End. There was a
bowling mob around the pole that was
marked "West End" at the top, and
which more or less excited brokers
grasped and agitated from time to time
is if it were an orihamme of battle.
But Ii it was a bowling mob it was
also smiling one; and the brokers
seemed constantly to be grinning at
their own gyrations, as if it were after
all some extravaganza sort of sport that
they were engaged in, rather than a
life-and-death contest. The listener
was occupied in little speculation of
his own as to whether Boston brokers
could ever make SO serious business
of stock gambling as the spectators of
New York and the produce gamblers
of Chicago do when he was addressed
cheerily by spruce, tailor made-look-
ing man at his side, who wore his silk
hat tilted in the slightest perceptible
degree toward his left eye, and had a
general jaunty air of New Yorkiness.
BEG your pardon, said he, "but
can you tell me which is Rev. DIR.
Tompkins?'
What do YOU mean, sirp"
MEAN? Why, isn't this little Sum
day School convention?"
Sunday School convention? No,
sir; this is the Boston stock-exchange. ,
'St-st-stock-exchangew The New
York man looked stupefied. you
don't mean to say that this quiet little
assemblage is stock-exchange" he
went on.
He would have elaborated his joke,
no doubt, but there was nothing to do
but cut him dead The New York
mans idea of wit, as it finds expression
when he comes to Boston and wants to
ridicule something, is eXcruciating.-
Boston Transcript.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-26
Japanese Swords and Swordsmen

The swords made by the japanese
prove the western world has still some
thing to learn from the east. Neither
Sheffield nor Birmingham is able to
turn out a sword-blade which can be
compared with the wonderful swords
of Japan. For fineness of temper and
keenness of edge they are unequaled
in the modern world, and can scarcely
be matched by the blades forged in
Damascus and Toledo. A common
feat for japanese soldier is to cut a
pig in two at single blow; and bars
of lead, and even of iron, have been
divided by these weapons without a
notch or imperfection being visible on
the blade.
While not possessing the marvellous
dexterity of Sikh swordsmen, the
Japanese would be most formidable
adversaries in hand-to-hand fighting
On the Occasion of the murder of
Richardson and his party--a horses
hind leg was completely severed from
the body by stroke from one of the
terrible two-handed swords. A sword
of superior excellence is preserved as
an heirloom in the Satsuma family,
and with this blade leaf floating on
the stream has been cut in two by
merely being allowed to drift against
the edge. The fact is, the Japanese
understand the tempering of sword
blades better than any other people,
Iron.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-26
A Mean Trick.

Gus de Smith is one Of those fellows
who fairly revel in historical reminis-
cences. Anything that relates to early
history gets away with him entirely.
Tuesday Gilhooley introduced Gus to a
venerable old gentleman, whom he rep
resented as one of the trainers of the
Texas Constitution.
OF course Gus was nearly tickled to
death. He squeezed the old mans
hand, asking him a thousand questions
about Sam Houston and San Jacinto.
The old mans answers were rather
confused, and, as he hobbled on, Gil
hooly said:
what in the world did you mean,
Gus, by asking that old man such fool
ish questions?"
He is an old veteran, amt he? He
framed that Texas Constitution.
"Well. suppose he did frame the
Constitution of Texas. He is a car
penter, and that is his trade to make
frames and the like. The man who
hired him to frame the Constitution
paid him for the glass and the frame
and his work. Why do you go raking
up past grievances and throwing it up
to the old man that he is carpenter?
He has only been in Texas about a
YEAR iftinqS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-26

The following amusing description
of life in Algiers is taken from the
private letter of an American at
present residing there:
"Life here is very pleasant most Of
the time, and ought to be all the time.
We have n small villa, with garden
and orange trees. We ride, drive,
read, and gossip with the natives.
The only drawback is damnable
tendency on the part OF the inhabi-
tants to drag one perpetually before
the jttge de pair. Shortly after our
arrival | had TO discharge my corTTere
for impertinence and other crimes.
He, thinking he would catch me with
out resources in strange land, de-
manded six months wages as ded0nl-
Dldgement for being discharged with
out sufficient warning. offered him
a weeks wages and fare back to Paris.
He got at the Judge first and poisoned
his mind. was summoned, and then
the fun began. For month l have
been appearing weekly in court swear
ing that the man had been undomeS-
tique, he making himself out to be a
sort of gentleman interpreter who
ought not to be discharged. The
Judge, as | say, was entirely in favor
of the corriere, though had all the
law on my side. The joke is coming.
A week ago we had an audience again,
and the Judge said he would pro-
nounce Judgment that day week Ito
day.. On Saturday last | wrote a
letter to the Judge calling his attention
to certain points in the case which he
had ignored in court, and finally APP
pealing to SG hdute justice. That night
the poor man took to his bed, and died
on Sunday. Whether my letter killed
him don't pretend to say. We must
wait for another judge to come before
we progress. / have another process in
hand The man who lets us our horses
pretends that | hired them by the
month. / don't recognize any such
agreement, and have summoned him
to accept my offer through the Huisste7
for each ride or drive we have had.
The good man had row with my wife
yesterday because she told him he
must be tres nigGud TO suppose we
would pay him any such sum as he
asked. He at once became very
angry, and said, MADAME, JIG ne Suts
pas nigaud Madame, je vois Udu1
bien! Monsieur, madame, ma dppelc
nigdud" etc / feel more or less sure
he will summon her for insulting him.
Really, never saw such beastly peo-
pie. They look upon stranger as
common prey. ! now have lawyer
in steady pay to protect me in case of
emergency, and seldom go out alone.
In other respects the place is perfectly
enchanting scenery, food,
and wine and tobacco. Send me
books, and l ask for no more"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-26

Mr.. Miner, aged "a years. is the old
est person in Butler, n. Y. He never
uses A cane, reads without spectaeles.
eats with his own teeth. walks four
miles 4 day, and was never sick day
in his life. If there is any one who has
a better record, the public would be
glad to hear from him.
Removing the brain of pigeon does
not destroy lis mental faculties. 1t
can see, hear. feed, swallow food put
in its mouth, but is incapable of orig
mating any impulse. II will stand
still in the attitude IN which it is
placed until ii dies of starvation, but
throw it in the air and il viii fly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-26

At last an engineer has succeeded in
checking the flow of the great arte.iad
we'll at Belle Plane, Iowa. The water
now flows through five inch pipe, and
can be shut off at pleasure. Several thous-
and loads of sand and rock have been
dumped into the great geyser since it
commenced TO spout nearly year ago.
and several thousand dollars have been
spent to check the water.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-26
WILL 1T PAYp

viii it pay? is the practical question
that confronts every business. Will it
pay, is considered by every busin ess
man before making any investment of
money.
The saloon keeper has long answered
this question satisfactorily to himself,
financially at least. The effect upon his
family in social way need not be dis
cussed here 1t may be said, however,
that the wife rarly escapes social ostrac-
ism.
Considering the effect on his family
will it pay any man to keep saloon? On
the other side, will it pay?
1. Will it pay to put one citizen in
jail because another citizen sells him
liquor?
2. Will it pay any man to carry home
some bones for dinner of soup, because
he has given nearly all his money to the
saloon keeper who buys the choicest
beef for his own table?
8. viii it pay to have one citizen in
lunatic asylum because another citizen
sells him liquor?
4. Will pay to license saloons, thus
paving broad avenues for boys and men
to promenade to the end, to find only
punishment there, to be cast into jail or
the odium of the ''black list" and their
families into disgrace and misery?
5. viii it pay to have ten active,
intelligent boys transformed into thieves
to enable one man TO grow rich easily?
6. VIII it pay to try to delude our
selves into the idea that it can ever be
right to license Il saloon?
Is any mother willing that her boy
shall be taught to enter the gilded doors?
Is any father willing that his boy shall
become q drunkard?
Does every father in town know
whether his son goes into the saloon or
not?
These are points one needs to consider
and act according to the necessities of
the case.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-26

An old writer, speaking of death,
says: II do verify believe that it is
those terrible ceremonies and prepare
tons wherewith we set it out that more
terrify us than the thing itself; new,
quite contrary way of living, the cries
of mothers, wives and children, the
visits of astonished and affected friends,
dark room set ro1nd with burning
tapers, in fine, nothing but ghostliness
and horror round about us, render it
so formidable that man almost fam
cies himself dead and buried already, "
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-26

In Ontario, where all single women
and widows with the requisite property
qualification can vote at municipal
elections. one young lady was so en-
thusiastic in support of the mayor that
she postponed her wedding in order
that she might be able to help to vote
him into Office.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-26
GRINTCOUNTY, WISCONSIN.
STATS TIC

Formulation. ....................... 37,S52
Area in square miles. LOSS
State valuation OF property for 1882 $12 900 66e
GRANT COUNTY, one OF the oldest and larges
counties in the State; is situated in the extreme
southwest eorner-in size being about the same
area as the state of Rhode Island. It's first set
Element dates back to 1927.
The County now ranks sixth in population
and twelfth in wealth. The principal products
are Corn, Oats. Cattle and Hogs Of the latter
immense quantities are shipped every year.
GRANT COUNTY, to settlers, still offers advan-
tages equal il not superior to any County in the
State, and is destined to grow in the future as in
the past.
The County is traversed by four Railroads, on
havingits terminus in the County at LANCASTER
the County Seat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-26

Attorney & CounSelor-GEo. b. CARTER,
Lancaster, Mis-. VIII practice in all eou.ts in
the states except County Courts. Office at the
4Slyl